Barbara Walters hurts forehead in fall

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Barbara Walters attends the TIME's 2009 Person of the Year at the Time & Life Building on November 12, 2009 in New York City. Jemal Countess/Getty Images for Time Inc/AFP

Journalism icon and 83-year-old Barbara Walters fell on a stair while visiting the British ambassador’s residence on Sunday, January 20, and went to a hospital to have a cut on her forehead tended to. “Out of an abundance of caution,” ABC News senior vice president Jeffrey Schneider said, Walters went to have a full examination and remains there for observation. “Barbara is alert – and telling everyone what to do – which we all take as a very positive sign.” Co-host of ABC’s popular daytime talk show “The View,” Walters was the first American woman to co-host network news in the 1970s when it was still a field dominated by men. She also spent two decades as co-host and correspondent for ABC’s popular news magazine how “20/20.”

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